Example sentences of "as it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 2 | AS IT ANNOUNCES 40 HIGH-END VALUEPOINT MODELS IN THE US |
| 3 | The incentive to settle any claim exists insofar as it takes one file more off the solicitor 's desk and from the client 's point of view , gives him his damages ( or a proportion thereof ) sooner than would be the case if he requires to proceed to Proof . |
| 4 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 5 | He glimpsed the little digital readout on the lighted grey panel as it went 03.00 02.00 01.00 … |
| 6 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 7 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 8 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |
| 9 | Significant other : no wonder the phrase has such a popular current usage , combining as it does two all-time favourites of late philosophical jargon — the semiotic sign and the mysterious alien . |
| 10 | A title which includes Sexism and Deviance must rate as unparalleled in its ‘ shock horror ’ value , combining as it does two of the current ghouls on the contemporary school scene . |
| 11 | The disc is an unusual one , featuring as it does seven works originally written for other instruments , from Rachmaninov 's Prelude in G minor to Bach 's Partita in D minor , all in Hall 's own transcriptions . |
| 12 | ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ suggests he could be right , boasting as it does ten numbers that are every bit as abrasive and sharply barbed as their predecessors . |
| 13 | North Yorkshire 's national reputation for education and industry links is confirmed as it hosts two major conferences . |
| 14 | All contributing organisations receive acknowledgement on their specific vehicle as it travels hundreds of miles between schools , demonstrating commitment to the need for technology based skills for girls as well as boys . |
| 15 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 16 | SIR — I suggest this is a unique ‘ David and Goliath ’ story , as it concerns one small individual telephone subscriber and the mighty BT . |
| 17 | Of the two the Almond has the poorest water quality as it serves four sewage works directly viz Whitburn , Blackburn , East Calder and Newbridge and two works by tributaries , Fauldhouse via the Breich Water and Winchburgh via the Niddrie Burn . |
| 18 | PLC- γ is also a member of this family as it contains two SH2 domains ( filled boxes ) and one SH3 domain ( hatched box ) . |
| 19 | It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif . |
| 20 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 21 | Everything he draws , she sees as it unfolds thousands of miles away in Hampstead . |
| 22 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 23 | There was the sound of crunching metal as it hit one of the trees a glancing blow and came to a rocking halt . |
| 24 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 25 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 26 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 27 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 28 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 29 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 30 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |